today, representing waste in school resources. We investigate whether reducing parent-school information gaps can improve … of positive classroom spillovers. Leveraging existing school inputs to implement a light-touch, cost …

expected kindergarten entry age to account for negative selection of older school entrants, we find that exposure to more … popular discussion of school entry age - being old relative to one's peers is not beneficial …

and student achievement at the high school level. The availability of test scores in multiple subjects for each student … distribution of teacher credentials by race and socio-economic status of high school students -- a pattern we also document … -- contributes to achievement gaps in high school …

Low-achieving students in many school districts are retained in a grade in order to allow them to gain the academic or … paper, we use a regression discontinuity design to examine the impact of grade retention on high school completion. We find …

among Israeli high school high-stakes tests (2000-2002). Since students take multiple exams on multiple days in the same … location after each grade, we can adopt a fixed effects strategy estimating models with city, school, and student fixed effects …

Israeli high school students who took a series of high stakes matriculation exams between 2000 and 2002. As a source of random …

Despite the fact that the average American student is absent more than two weeks out of every school year, most … research on the effect of instructional time has focused not on attendance but on the length of the school day or year. Student … and school fixed effects models using Massachusetts data show a strong relationship between student absences and …